Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Leeis an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 March 1957
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
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As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
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I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
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Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.
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When I saw the devastation on TV and in the news...it (didn't) prepare me for what I saw there. You hear these people's stories, and its heartbreaking.
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Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.
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One more, we catch De Niro and Scorsese. I hope we catch them, and I hope we pass them.
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So I missed the wedding, huh? I didn't get an invitation. What's up with that?
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'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
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I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.
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I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color. There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans.
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We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.
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Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.